Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A canoe made from a hollowed tree trunk; a piragua.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A canoe made from the trunk of a tree hollowed out.
- noun Same as
periagua , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
canoe ofshallow draft , made by hollowing a log. - noun A small
flat-bottom boat of shallow draft. Specifically, a flat-bottom boat made of one four-feet by eight-feet piece of plywood, the bottom being a two-feet eight-inches wide eight-feet long pointed-ends lengthwise-centered oval cut from the piece, and the boat's sides being comprised of the two remaining pieces attached lengthwise to the outside edges of the oval. - noun A style of
pasta shaped as a miniature canoe folded over.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can also take a king-size pirogue, which is usually faster.
Snow traveller 2007
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The pirogue was a very quaint-looking craft, of about twenty feet in length by some five feet beam, formed out of a solid log of wood which had been roughly trimmed with an axe to form the bottom portion of her, with a couple of planks above to form her top sides.
The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection Harry Collingwood 1886
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The other two boats were of that variety of open craft known as pirogue, a craft shaped like a flat-iron, square-sterned, flat-bottomed, roomy, of light draft, and usually provided with four oars and a square sail which could be used when the wind was aft, and which also served as a tent, or night shelter, on shore.
First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805
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The pirogue was a project my dad and I had made several years earlier, and though she could glide through the water barely skimming the surface, I knew how easily she would tip over if she suddenly got lodged on a submerged log.
unknown title 2009
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The pirogue is a massive appetizer, comprised of the skins of one and a half robustly - sized potatoes smothered in cheese and little crumbles of fried alligator with a side of mustard dipping sauce.
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Coast Guard Lt. Brenton Caine says the large, canoe-shaped boat known as a pirogue was towed to shore early Wednesday.
unknown title 2009
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For those who don't know, a pirogue is a Cajun boat that makes a canoe look large and roomy.
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a tiny "pirogue" -- the traditional flat-bottomed, pointy-ended canoe used by Louisiana bayou folk for generations.
thetowntalk.com - 2010
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($8.95) envisioning it will be something like dumplings, but what arrives is closer to pirogi, while the pirogue is a potato skin-like appetizer.
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Before it was over, Nguyen had blessed a fiberglass flatboat, a 20-foot Trophy Bayliner and a tiny "pirogue" the traditional flat-bottomed, pointy-ended canoe used by Louisiana bayou folk for generations.
Gulf oil spill makes blessing of boats a sad task in La. this year 2010
chained_bear commented on the word pirogue
See also periagua.
October 11, 2008
bilby commented on the word pirogue
Also perogue.
January 29, 2016